Behind the Mask
Subtitle: Destruction and Creativity in Womens Aggression
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: November 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780674064850
Subjects: Behavioural theory (Behaviourism); Women's studies; Women; Aggression (Psychological Aspects); Psychology Of Women; Psychology; Women's Studies - General; Social Psychology; Social Science / Women's Studies; Emotions; Aggressiveness
Description: "This book explores the origins, meaning, and forms of women's experience of their own aggression. Drawing from in-depth interviews with sixty women of different ages and ethnic and class backgrounds - police officers, attorneys, drug abusers, homemakers, artists - Dana Jack provides a rich account of how women explain (or explain away) their own feelings and acts of rage and violence.

With sensitivity but without sentimentality, lack gives readers a range of compelling stories of how women make sense of their anger, hopelessness, and fear in the face of others' aggression, and how they express or come to terms with their own cruel and vengeful impulses."--BOOK JACKET.